D-VHS to Hit The Market This Week

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo News is has an article stating that D-VHS is hitting the market this week. The upside: D-VHS supports full high-definition picture quality. The down side: $35 - $45 per movie (although available for less) and $2k for a player. Seems to me you'd lose a lot of that HD picture after a few viewings too. 4 studios are supporting it: 'JVC persuaded Fox, Universal, DreamWorks and Artisan to support the format after developing a new copy-protection standard it calls D-Theater to prevent unauthorized copying of the high-definition movies'."

Comments

I'm sure these will succeed.

[SmittyTheBold]

Just like DAT made its way into the consumer sector so well, I would expect D-VHS to do the same! With prices like these, who could resist!?

Now, really, I see this taking the place of Beta, MiniDV, and D8 in the content-creation field. It could be rather good for them, because it provides digital video (something Beta doesn't) along with HD support, something MiniDV and D8 can't.

Fight Club Plot

[alapalaya]

D-VHS to Hit The Market This Week

The Market (walking alone): Du-de-du... Du-de-...*OUCH!* (somebody hit him)
The Market: Who are you?
The Stranger: I'm the D-VHS, and this is your last week on this planet...!
[to be continued....]

(I can see my karma fallin'...!)